The BINAC is the first ever commercially produced computer, first running in 1949. For Retrochallenge 2014, I hope to emulate it, and recreate the first ever game running on it, Nim (and maybe some other things).

Wednesday, 9 July 2014

Code Tools

This is the other bit of code I've got to run on the BINAC - this is a 'pretend' bit from the Popular Science magazine.

To convert this into some sort of useable code, I've written a very simple assembler, and a disassembler, more to test the assembler than anything else, and this is now in the github repository.

Hopefully, soon, I will actually run some real code. I've got the Square Root code successfully assembled, and I've figured out how it works pretty much, so it should be a fairly sound test bed for an emulator.